I am a little curious to the channels that you do have access to. Being
in canada, I am also curious as to if you plan to distribute the
FreeRunner in Canada.
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 10:56 -0800, Michael Shiloh wrote:
> Hello,
>> A number of times you have asked about pre-orders. Here is the official
> word from our VP of Marketing:
>> Over the next couple of months you will see the following 3 announcements:
>> 1. When the production hardware is solid and signed off, we will
> announce pricing and availability. That is, we will announce the
> expected price and the expected date on which the web store will open.
>> 2. When the first production run is complete, we will announce that.
>> 3. When the phones reach the distribution centers in Europe and USA, we
> will open the web store and begin taking orders.
>>> We are actively looking at pre-orders, but as discussed in the past
> there are a number of very difficult complications in taking pre-orders.
> We think the best solution is to build 10 times as many phones as we did
> the last time, so that pre-orders will not be necessary.
>> As many of you know, ramping up a factory for production is not
> instantaneous. We plan to do a number of pre-production runs to iron out
> manufacturing issues and to assure high yield. These pre-production runs
> will occur before the official production run, so that when we make
> announcements 2 and 3 above we will be highly confident in our ability
> to manufacture and deliver a very large number of handsets.
>> Regards,
> Michael
>>